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Saturday, July 23, 2016

Scratchboard

I've been meaning to try scratchboard for a long time now. I keep on drooling over my talented friend Ann Ranlett's
wonderful work, and decided it was time to give it a shot. I've been
doing a lot of research about tools, surfaces, techniques, watching
videos, trying out different strokes... So basically there's been quite a
lot of scratching involved in my life in the last month or so since I
started. So much so that whenever I drive over a brand new resurfaced
road, I have a bad urge to scratch something on it!I did a few
pieces on scratch paper to get used to it, but I'm now ready for the
real stuff: Ampersand Scratchbord. Stay tunned for more scratchbord
work. This is what I've done so far: